My grandfather lived to be 96 years old. He was born in a town outside of Salerno in Southern Italy. He came to New York when he was 20. He lived in ….

The Bible stands apart from all other books, and has survived and will survive all the attacks of its enemies. It is like the electric torch that shi….

When I'm in New York my boyfriend buys me sneakers and vice versa..

A Witch is born out of the true hungers of her time,” she said. “I was born out of New York. The things that are most wrong here summoned me. ("Drink….

Everything seems to be going faster and faster. It's really harder to create something that endures. The New York City Ballet has succeeded in doing ….

Odd things happen in New York, which is why it's such a great source of stories..

The 1990s, in New York at least, were all about who could have the baggiest pants, and I definitely got swept up in that fad. Luckily, it didn't last….

At this moment, my soul is in Lebanon, my heart in Paris, and my body in New York..

My first show at MoMA in New York was pictures of new developments along the eastern edge of the Rocky Mountains. They were housing developments that….

I was born on the other side of the tracks, in public housing in Brooklyn, New York. My dad never made more than $20,000 a year, and I grew up in a f….

The first time I landed in New York and got a cab to my hotel, I was completely struck by it: a feeling of life and chaos, 24 hours around the clock,….

My steamboat voyage to Albany and back, has turned out rather more favorable than I had calculated. The distance from New York to Albany is one hundr….

The New York Times' list is a bunch of crap. They ought to call it the editor's choice. It sure isn't based on sales..

I felt New York was a big, more stylish, more metropolitan Golders Green. I was thrilled..

The most significant New York club for me was Paradise Garage, where they played house music. This was around '84 or '85..

Whether you're an unpublished novelist or a sixteen-time New York Times bestselling author, you can always improve your craft. You can always become ….

'The Food Network' was just starting in New York, and I was getting lots of attention from Mesa Grill. They had no money, so if you couldn't get ther….

In the sense of media saying this about themselves, I drive to my kids' school in upstate New York through rural Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Ne….

My one thought is to get out of New York, to experience something genuinely American..

The City of New York is like an enormous citadel, a modern Carcassonne. Walking between the magnificent skyscrapers one feels the presence on the fri….

Maybe New York shouldn't survive. Maybe it should go through a cycle of destruction..